Lately it seems I just can’t get settled into regular blog posting. I have so many things to make note of I keep putting it off and the list gets longer. Here are a few of the ones I can remember….
I did get a new post up on Elementary Art. Stats are improving [...]
I know it has been almost a month since I have posted here. I have received a number of emails and even a few calls wondering if all is well. Yes, all is well. Thanks for checking in! This is a very busy time of the year for anyone who calls making [...]
First, I want to say thank you to all of you who visited me at my booth in Houston. It was such fun to meet those of you who have come to know my work through the blog and flickr as well as seeing and catching up with old friends. What fun we [...]
Jude over at Spirit Cloth was inspired by Heather who was inspired by…………and so on, to send a little something handmade in the spirit of “making” , something which many of us share.
I’m going to participate but in a slightly different way………
There are so many other things to make note of here I’m not sure [...]
I’ve been getting things ready for the show in Houston and snapped a couple of photos of some of the buttons before they got wrapped and packed up. It’s good to look at them again and I find that I still like them- I’m just done with the making of them! They are priced [...]
After posting a question to the dyerslist forum about where to find the cheapest black cotton that discharges well, I ended up at JoAnns Fabrics where I bought 12yds of black cotton with a 40% coupon at about $1.70 yd. The above photos chart the progress of the project which is to do a [...]
I have been spending some time reading over at The Ragged Cloth Cafe. I’ve been thinking about art a lot lately and the more I learn the more questions I have!
Today my blisters are peeling from all the pole wrapping- (*buy new gloves tomorrow) There are piles of colored silk that need [...]
Karren Brito wrote a post yesterday that introduced me to this group. NAII is the National Association of Independent Artists.
They have a survey you might be interested participating in concerning art & craft shows. I did the survey and then went back to discover a little about NAII. I came across this page which [...]
6 colorways above from recent poles
I just got in my supply of string for polewrapping and now am busy wrapping and overdyeing. I ran out of what I had been using and was forced to try a number of others I had. I was reminded that some threads are much better than others [...]
Image from the show at NY’s Museum of Art & Design (formally know as the American Craft Museum)
Yesterday I walked the California Gift Show as an attendee and not an exhibitor. After being an exhibitor for 25 years at these shows it felt a little strange but at the same time it was a [...]
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